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From: Dan Lowe <dan@ingeni.us>
Subject: Re: Mail and wrap 72 char ?
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Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2003 04:17:43 GMT

Joakim Wendel <noreplyto@bostreammail.net> wrote:
>
> No i was sending a little piece i was hoping to get published as an 
> article in a newspaper and when i got it back as quoted reply i saw that 
> it was a total mess wrap wise :(
> (not very important but it's easier to read when not a mess)

That doesn't necessarily have to do with how they got it.  What you read
was generated by their mail software, not Mail.app.

When dealing with plaintext it wraps at 70-some characters and uses
x-flowed.  Really what that means is that the message is marked as x-flowed
in the headers (Content-Transfer-Encoding, I think), and any line which is
supposed to be joined to the line following ends with a space.  Lines which
aren't supposed to join to the next line don't have the trailing space.

Clients that understand x-flowed know what to do; those that don't are fine
too, since they just have regular lines, and don't really care that the
space at the end is there.

> Is the "x-flow" something you can turn off ?

Not as far as I know.

Note that this is when dealing in plaintext composition.  I'm not sure how
things are handled when using rich text since I don't use it.

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